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Conversations with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

"Controversial, challenging and outspoken, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is best known as a deconstructionist and post-colonial theorist, who chooses to describe herself, as a 'para-disciplinary, ethical philosopher.' Her reputation was first made for her translation and preface to Jacques Derrida's Of Grammatology (1976) and she has since rapidly developed an awe-inspiring track record in several areas, ranging from Feminism and Marxism to Literary Criticism and of course, Postcolonialism, building a reputation for being simultaneously at home and an outsider in many disciplines." "The interviews collected in this volume reflect the international character of her intellectual engagement as, in her criss-crossings of the globe, she engages with activists, scholars and writers located in different cultural contexts, from America to India to Macedonia and China."--BOOK JACKET.Read more...

Home --
Resistance that cannont be recognized as such --
Not really a properly intellectual response --
Appendix: Home: the private conversation.

Responsibility:

Swapan Chakravorty, Suzana Milevska, Tani E. Barlow.

Abstract:

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has built a global reputation in feminist, marxist and literary criticism as well as post-colonialism. This work contains interviews and talks that reflect the international character of her intellectual engagement with the ideas and the politics, which shape the world.Read more...

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'She is among the most coruscatingly intelligent of all contemporary theorists.' Terry Eagleton

""Controversial, challenging and outspoken, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is best known as a deconstructionist and post-colonial theorist, who chooses to describe herself, as a 'para-disciplinary, ethical philosopher.' Her reputation was first made for her translation and preface to Jacques Derrida's Of Grammatology (1976) and she has since rapidly developed an awe-inspiring track record in several areas, ranging from Feminism and Marxism to Literary Criticism and of course, Postcolonialism, building a reputation for being simultaneously at home and an outsider in many disciplines." "The interviews collected in this volume reflect the international character of her intellectual engagement as, in her criss-crossings of the globe, she engages with activists, scholars and writers located in different cultural contexts, from America to India to Macedonia and China."--BOOK JACKET."